Santa Cruz gets revenge against Frampton to reclaim featherweight crown

Santa Cruz gets revenge against Frampton to reclaim featherweight crown

Though Frampton had his successes up close, this strategic adaption allowed Santa Cruz to run out a deserving victor by scores of 114-114, 115-113 and 115-113.

The seventh round produced more of the same though Santa Cruz was having less success than in the first half of the fight whereas Frampton appeared to be growing in confidence and for the second round in a row he showed terrific defensive skills to avoid a late onslaught at the end of the round.

According to Trump's ideals, Santa Cruz' family, including his mother and father, would be deported. "Let's do it a third time".

In an absorbing rematch in Las Vegas on Saturday, Leo Santa Cruz exacted revenge against Carl Frampton.

There was no give in Santa Cruz after he was rocked to the ropes in the second round of the first clash.

"I am a man of my word", he said.

Santa Cruz plans to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

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"I worked hard and did what I had t", he said.

The very ambitious Santa Cruz additionally stated that after this victory over Frampton he wanted to challenge Super Featherweight Champ Vasyl Lomachenko, then go on to win the 135 Pound and the 140 Pound Titles to establish a boxing record of winning many titles consecutively. The best man won.

"I was grateful and honoured to share a ring with such a great champion", added Frampton.

Barnes also discussed his predictions for Carl Frampton's title fight rematch against Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas tonight. "I knew I wasn't the best I could perform, so I said I could really improve on things and I think I could get the victory next time". Instead of his usual stalking, whirlwind style, Santa Cruz laid back and used his height and reach to make the shorter Carl Frampton come to him and walk into punches. The Mexican fighter began to dig to the body with the left hook as Frampton traded with him.

The stat sheets confirm that Santa Cruz lands just over 30 punches per round - the second highest in boxing across all weight divisions. "I saw some openings, and I thought I could hurt him later down the road, but I wasn't expecting it to be that soon in the fight". "There were a lot of close rounds, but Leo deserved it".

These two featherweight warriors produced the fight of 2016 last July and although this rematch failed to catch fire, it was a joy to behold nonetheless. "I hope he's a man of his word", said Frampton, who connected at a 23 percent clip (133 of 592).

Two weeks ago, James DeGale flew the Union Jack flag valiantly to earn a hard fought draw against the highly rated Badou Jack in NY and the latest British world champion to cross the Atlantic is Carl Frampton. "We are both great fighters, we deserve it and let's go again". As the fighters battled in the ring, their fans simultaneously dueled with chants back and forth.